Belief and Islam

about Hadrat Mu’âwiya: “Our brethren disagree with us. Yet they
are not disbelievers or sinners. Their ijtihâd shows them to behave
so.” When Hadrat Talhâ ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, who was
fighting against him, attained martyrdom, he himself cleaned the
dust from his face and became imâm in the namâz performed after
his death. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares: “Believers are brothers.” In the
last âyat-i-kerîma of the Sûrat al-Fat-h He declares: “The
Prophet’s Companions love one another.” Not to love even one of
the Prophet’s Companions, or the worst of it, to bear hostility
towards him, is to deny the Qur’ân al-kerîm. Scholars of Ahl as-
Sunna understood the superiority of the Sahâbat al-kirâm ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ correctly and commanded Muslims
to love all of them and thereby rescued Muslims from the danger.
People who hated and bore hostility towards our superiors
Hadrat ’Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ and his sons and
descendants, the Sunnî Muslims’ most beloved darlings, were
called Khârijîs (Khawârij). Now they are called Yazîdîs. So
rancorous are their credal tenets that they hardly have any relation
left with Islam.
The Wahhâbîs, while claiming to love all the Sahâbat al-kirâm,
follow not those blessed people but their own heretical way which
they ascribe to the Sahâba. They do not like the scholars of Ahl as-
Sunna, great sûfîs and ’Alawîs, and slander all of them. They
suppose that they alone are Muslims. They regard people who are
not like them as ‘polytheists’ and say that it is halâl for them to
take away life and property of such people. Therefore, they
become Ibâhîs. They draw wrong, heretical meanings from the
Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth ash-sherîfs and think that Islam
consists merely of those meanings. They deny the adillat ash-
Shar’iyya and most hadîth-i-sherîfs. Great scholars of the four
Madhhabs wrote many books proving with documents that those
who disagree with the Ahl as-Sunna are heretics and cause grave
harm to Islam. [1] – 54 –
[1] For more detailed information, please read our books in English,
such as Advice for the Muslim and the six fascicles of Endless Bliss,
and also the Arabic al-Minhat al-wahbiyya fî-r-raddi-l-Wahhâbiyya,
at-Tawassuli bi-n-Nabî wa jahâlat-l-Wahhâbiyyîn and Sebîl-un-nejât
and the Persian Seyf al-abrâr. These works and the valuable books
written in refutation to ahl al-bid’a are published by Hakîkât Kitâbevi
in Istanbul. Both in Radd al-muhtâr, (written by Muhammad Emin
Ibni ’Âbidin who passed away in Damascus in 1252 [1836 A.D.]